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单词 transgender
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transgenderadj.n.

Brit. /tranzˈdʒɛndə/, /trɑːnzˈdʒɛndə/, /transˈdʒɛndə/, /trɑːnsˈdʒɛndə/, U.S. /ˌtrænzˈdʒɛndər/, /ˌtræn(t)sˈdʒɛndər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: trans- prefix, gender n.
Etymology: < trans- prefix + gender n., after transsexual adj. Compare earlier transgendered adj. With use as noun compare earlier transgenderal n. and transgenderist n.
A. adj.
1. Designating a person whose sense of personal identity and gender does not correspond to that person's sex at birth, or which does not otherwise conform to conventional notions of sex and gender.Although now typically used as an umbrella term which includes any or all non-conventional gender identities, in wider use transgender is sometimes used synonymously with the more specific terms transsexual or transvestite.
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the world > life > sex and gender > transgender person > [adjective]
transsexual1957
transsexualist1959
male-to-female1966
female-to-male1971
transgender1974
trans1981
FTM1987
MTF1990
1974 D. Cordell in Rep. 1st National TV.TS Conf. 16 There is a tendency among trans-gender people to encourage each other. This precludes the very careful self-analysis which must take place in everyone who is proposing to undergo this therapy.
1984 News (Portsmouth) 6 Aug. 1/4 Transgender model Bruce Laker's plans for a white wedding have been dashed.
1994 What constitutes the community? in bit.listserv.gaynet (Usenet newsgroup) 2 Aug. I personally can not speak for folks who identify as transgender.
2000 Ralph 7 July 66/2 I assume people know I'm transgender.
2016 Walla Walla (Washington) Union Bull. 25 Apr. a3/2 The Pennsylvania legislature is considering a bill that would extend protections to transgender people, including allowing them to use the bathrooms they choose.
2. Of or characterized by transgenderism; of or relating to transgender people.
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1981 Female Mimics Internat. 11 No. 8. 47/2 I steer clear from any ‘far out’ explanation of the transgender phenomenon.
1990 Renaissance News Nov. 7/2 Most transgender groups offer support for the transgendered person only and not their family.
1997 Gender & Society 11 488 For those whose transgender feelings and behaviors began in early childhood, pressures to ‘fit’ into the masculine stereotype..created confusion about identity.
2003 D. Campos Diverse Sexuality & Schools iv. 132 She was able to attend a summer youth leadership seminar where she learned more about transgender issues.
2015 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 Feb. (Educ. Life section) 19/1 ‘They’ has become an increasingly popular substitute for ‘he’ or ‘she’ in the transgender community.
B. n.
1. A transgender person; (sometimes) spec. a person who is transsexual or transvestite. Also occasionally (with the and plural agreement): transgender people as a class.Cf. note at sense A. 1.
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the world > life > sex and gender > transgender person > [noun]
she-male1842
ladyboy1857
mujerado1882
transsexual1949
transsexualist1954
male-to-female1977
transgender1979
transperson1979
FTM1987
MTF1990
1979 Kenosha (Wisconsin) News 17 Oct. 9/4 Jorgensen says she knows of some male-to-female trans-genders who have settled into lesbian relationships.
1988 Stage 4 Aug. 12/1 Theatrical transgenders now have their own magazine..through which drag artists can find jobs in the theatre.
1999 Transgender Tapestry Spring 72/2 The main panel discussion featured..a feminist activist, a lesbian ‘queer theorist’, a transgender who presented as masculine, and a male feminist professor of gender studies.
2011 Contemp. Sociol. 40 749/2 Transmen (female-to-male transgenders) are often cheerfully accepted by their co-workers.
2. Transgenderism; transgender identity, experience, etc.
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the world > life > sex and gender > transgender person > [noun] > identity or experience
transsexuality1950
transsexualism1953
transgender1984
1984 F.M.I.: Female Mimics Internat. 14 No. 4. 29/1 A short list..of books in the science fiction/fantasy field that have elements that might be interesting to people concerned with crossdressing or transgender.
1996 Jrnl. Gay, Lesbian, & Bisexual Identity Apr. 172 A wave of scholarship..has used the phenomenons of transgender and transsexualism to point out the limits of gender.
2015 chroniclelive.co.uk (Newcastle) (Nexis) 2 Sept. It's a romantic comedy..that will undoubtably gently educate people who watch it who have no idea about the subject of and issues around transgender.

Compounds

transgender umbrella n. the range of non-conventional gender identities covered by the use of transgender as a generic and inclusive term (see note at sense A. 1); the term transgender as used in this way.Originally and frequently in diagrams showing the gender identities covered by the term.
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1994 L. L. Rodgers & T. Gravel in J. Green Investig. Discrim. Transgender People (Human Rights Comm. San Francisco) App. E. 68 (caption) Transgender umbrella’..: crossdresser ‘drag’; tranvestic [sic] fetishist; transvestite; androgyne; transgenderist; transsexual; man/woman.
2003 Jrnl. Bisexuality 3 188 The butch femme fits under the transgender umbrella only insofar as she plays with traditional gender definitions.
2014 Gazette (Colorado Springs) 14 Feb. a10/5 In the past decade..the transgender umbrella has been growing well beyond transsexuals to encompass a wide variety of gender identities.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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